"Allowed Sites" is backward

Inside AdSense: Allowed and clear

I can't decide whether I'm astonished or just baffled by the new
"Allowed Sites" feature that prevents someone from "stealing" my code
and causing me to EARN MORE MONEY.

[ Link: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/09/allowed-and-clear.html ]

When I first saw the blog post about it I was heartened that Google
may have finally taken some positive action against a very serious
issue I raised to you last June:

At the time, someone had hacked into the ad server software on MY
website, the website I have worked hard on for the past 10 years to
build traffic and an audience. They went about replacing my high-
earning ad codes with THEIR OWN Google ad codes. They were clever
enough to mimic the color scheme of my Google codes that the the
problem went unnoticed for several days. This resulted in a loss of
SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS of ad revenue.

Allow me to repeat for emphasis: I LOST several hundred dollars in ad
revenue. LOST MONEY.

I called the matter to Google's attention and, of course, their
response was the the privacy of this criminal who had STOLEN MONEY
from me must be protected at all costs. I was, in Google's mind,
basically shit out of luck. I could bring a suit against Google, but
short of that I'd get no cooperation.

I shored up the security hole that allowed this to happen, alerted the
FBI to the crime (realizing that they'd also do nothing about it) and
moved on to the several hundred other tasks that are required to run
and improve my site, keeping the notion of a suit against Google and
this criminal in the back of my mind.

Then I saw their blog post and, at first blush, though, "Cool, Google
is actually doing something to protect publishers..."

...then I read what the feature actually is...

"...from having people illicitly EARN THEM MORE MONEY."

No action is to be taken against actual theft of income when someone
puts their codes on an inappropriate site and steals revenue from the
site owner. Oh, no. In that case the thief's privacy MUST be
safeguarded.

But god forbid Google would allow someone should put my codes on their
site and surreptitiously cause me to EARN money. THIS MUST NOT STAND.

I, for one, will not be preventing the bad guys from putting my codes
on their sites and earning me more money. I would much rather have the
feature that allows me to say which publisher IDs are allowed to place
ads on my site, and therefore prevent the kind of fraud I was victim
to last June, a fraud Google still stands behind and protects.